Re: Dual Boot - need Boot.ini help

How would I change the boot.ini so that two hard drives are indicated?
I can fix the others.

Lady D



On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:42:00 -0700, Patti MacLeod
<pam120@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|Hi LadyDungeness,
|
|Your boot.ini file does not indicate an operating system on a secondary
|(slave) drive, it indicates two operating systems on two separate partitions
|of a single drive. Also, Win2000 usually installs to a folder named WINNT not
|Windows.
|
|Assuming that Win2000 is the operating system on the slave drive, and
|assuming that it is installed on the first partition and not the second
|partition (as your current boot.ini file indicates) of that drive, your
|boot.ini file should look more like this:
|
|[boot loader]
|timeout=30
|default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
|[operating systems]
|multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="XP Home" /NoExecute=OptIn
|multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT="Win 2000"
|
|
|
|Regards,
.

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